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yggstyle@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhile, surely, OP was speaking English - given the world state why did you immediately jump to the conclusion that the country being referred to was the US? Yes - the statement wasn’t broad enough to perhaps include you but it wasn’t narrow or hateful in its intent. People (broad statement, including you) need to maybe find some chill and perhaps look for common ground rather than constantly being pedantic cunts. There were a variety of ways to approach that statement without being a twat… so kudos for just going for it - most people would have more tact.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Probably because there’s really only one nationality of people who do this lol
yggstyle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Odd. In my experience I have seen many people refer to their home country in that way. Do you refer to your country differently? Perhaps instead of country if OP said here that would have left the pedants less triggered. I digress. Just because you view something as commonplace - does not automatically make it the rule… much less actually reality.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’ve had people be absolutely furious when I didn’t specify that the country I was talking about was Finland and not the US.
“We should do X”
“But we do, here’s a link”
“That’s about the US, not Finland”
“Why would you assume we know you’re from Finland??”
It’s pretty funny and I admit that I do it on purpose.